LOW BLOOD COUNT AFTER OPERATION ON 24 May 2024

Hello Ladies, (womb women ), 

I hope everyone here are doing well and getting the great support this group gives as at times we no we shouldn't but we do and that is Doctor  Google most times worries the heck out of you and then we come on to MacMillians Womb Community and get back our sensible hat advice and knowledge that everyone of us have or still having issues on SO LET ME START Unfortunately for the last six months after my Radical Hysterectomy I have been having issues with UTI (Urinary Track Infections ), Stress Incontinence, Period Type Pains, Hair falling Out (getting thinner) Tiredness actually not Tiredness more like total Exhaustion so fatigued I could hardly get out of bed,  forgetting information is still worries me even when my sexy hubby or daughter have said something and I have forgotten my daughter tends to get annoyed at me but thank god hubby doesn't, I was also having issues with Pins and Needles and numbness more so left side of my hands as well as Spasms in my right hand as well, I was easily Irritated not to mention having rotten Headaches.

Eventually after about six or seven weeks my husband got me to send a Consultation to the GP's regarding my worries and symptoms although my most worrying aspect regarded my hair falling out completely just like my dad's and auntie Beanie as I always remember her having a wig on.

Within half an hour I got a email and then a phone call from the surgery informing me that I needed to make an appointment,  I managed to get an appointment the next day, So  Next morning I sat in the surgery waiting to see the GP.

The GP was a new Partner and what was really reassuring was the part that she was on the ball,  the GP  wanted to do more than just a full blood count but other tests to as well as  increasing  my pain relief and also booked an for X-ray's the next day to look at my shoulders as I was still having issues with them.

Three or Four days later I get another phone call to see if I could come in the following afternoon, to see the Doctor, so.

The appointment was very informative she mentioned that I had lost a lot of blood during my operation that left my blood count on borderline and that I wasn't far from a blood transfusion due to the amount I had lost, she explained when I left the hospital my blood count was 160 but now it was 84 and that I was Folate B12 Anemic, she explained that due to having a deficiency in B12 / Folate my body was producing abnormally large Red Blood Cells that do not function properly as the red blood cells carry oxygen around your body using haemoglobin but due to the large blood cell my haemoglobin can't do the correct job transporting the oxygen around my body hence all my symptoms as well as my shoulders showing increased calcium and arthritis she had sent my prescription over right away marking urgent so that I could pick them up and start taking them that night so the Folic Acid tablets and Iron tablets Ferrous Fumarate as well as the increased pain relief, she then informed me that she was writing back to the Gynaecologist, explaining everything that has happened since my hysterectomy but also a letter to the Gastroenterology just to check that I am not bleeding and why my system is not absorbing B12 as I might have Celiac or anything else as my Iron levels should have being going up and not down within the last six months.

I also wanted to ask if anyone has had the a smear called Virginal Vault and how was it for example more painful than the original smear test and if you needed painkillers before the procedure.